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The current prime minister would be wise to study Clement Attlee’s post-war premiership, which also started with a landslide election but, mired in economic uncertainty and internal conflict, quickly ...
Starmer’s U-turns don’t stop at welfare reform – he is a veritable boomerang of a Prime Minister. In an interview with Tom ...
Labour's bad week, Gaza, what makes a terrorist group, tourism tax and 80 years since Attlee's landslide We use cookies to ...
In his Attlee Foundation lecture delivered at Queen Mary University of London, Jon Davis explores the ambiguous reputation of Britain’s first post-war prime minister and pays tribute to his own ...
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so,” warned Mark Twain.
Prime Minister Clement Attlee shuffled his cabinet last week. Aneurin Bevan, who had run the Ministry of Health for five years, became Minister of Labor, in charge of mobilization of manpower. He ...
When Winston Churchill spoke to the world, his rhetoric growled and rolled like a magnificent thunderstorm. Plain Mr. Attlee could hardly hope to equal Mr. Churchill’s sound effects—but last ...
Lord Attlee, former Labor Prime Minister, voiced anti-Israel sentiments today in the course of a Middle East debate in the House of Lords. “We can no more support Israeli aggression than we can ...
Earl Attlee, Prime Minister of the late Labor Government, explained today what he meant when in a recent speech in the House of Lords he referred to the creation of a National Jewish Home in ...
Attlee’s idea of the public domain, embattled though not destroyed under Thatcher and Blair, is under systematic and brutal assault - as a fresh series of scandals over the weekend demonstrate.